Prasophyllum pyriforme

Flowering stem slender to stout, 30–60 cm tall. Leaf-blade 10–25 cm long, 3–6 mm diam. at base, apex suberect, senescent at flowering time. Flowers 30–50, green to greenish brown, pink or mauve, fragrant, in a crowded spike 10–15 cm long; ovary obovoid, 4–6 mm long; sepals 8–11 mm long, dorsal sepal ovate-lanceolate, lateral sepals usually fused for much of their length, linear-lanceolate, recurved, parallel; petals linear-oblong, 7–9 mm long. Labellum subsessile, porrect, 6–8 mm long, recurved at about right angles near middle, lamina usually pink or white, margins irregular; callus plate prominently raised, greenish, wrinkled, broad at base then tapered, extending almost to the labellum apex. Column appendages linear, c. 2 mm long. Flowers Nov.–Dec.